Courses

This 4-hour course is a great introduction to the world of ESG reporting. It provides a high-level overview of the main standards and frameworks that are used to produce sustainability reports and will enable you to direct organisational efforts to adapt to ESG requirements.

This interactive course will enable managers in the private and public sector to understand and apply a range of standards and tools underpinning Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. This course includes practical work with a number of key standards and frameworks used for ESG disclosures and reporting.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 4 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. This IFRS and ESG Reporting Workshop is designed for experienced preparers and users of IFRS financial statements and those who are involved in ESG and sustainability reporting and who require an update in both reporting areas.

The IAASB has recently completed a comprehensive revision of the standards applicable to the management of quality in audit and assurance, bringing much needed, comprehensive shifts in the approach to quality management which will require significant changes to systems and to behaviours of professionals in audit.

The standard ISA315(R) has been revised to respond to various challenges experienced by the auditing profession in appropriately identifying and assessing, and therefore responding to, the risk of material misstatement. While the risk-based approach has not changed, there are changes to concepts and steps within the process. These could materially impact the way you have been identifying and assessing risk and could bring significant improvements in quality and audit efficiencies.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over a 4 hour session. The course provides a short, focussed analysis of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments to enable participants to evaluate the impact of IFRS 9 on the financial statements.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 5 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. The course presents the information needed to identify the specific requirements of the new IASB IFRS 17 insurance standard.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 4 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. It focuses on the application of International Financial Reporting Standards and industry accounting practices, in the minerals and mining sector.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 2 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. In this course, we will survey and explore the most relevant and widely used ESG reporting frameworks: where they originated, what their intentions are, how they relate to one another, and how to work with them. We will pay special attention to the ‘S’ for social component of ESG reporting frameworks. Our focus will be on the GRI, SASB, TCFD and World Bank ESG diligence and reporting frameworks. We will discuss the principle of materiality and practice applying these principles.

We will explore case studies, workshop concepts, and ensure participants walk away with practical assets to use in their own ESG reporting and in the vetting of ESG frameworks for their own use.

In this practical course, we cover the drivers for ESG disclosures, the types of information and data used and the critical guidance of materiality. We explore case studies, workshop concepts and ensure participants walk away with practical assets to use in their own ESG reporting.

As business moves towards more transparent reporting on non-financial information (such as sustainability reporting), the auditing profession must adapt to provide assurance over this information. This course enables auditors to understand the concept, process and requirements of non-financial assurance engagements in compliance with ISAE3000(R).

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 4 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. How do companies decide what ESG information they will measure, track, and report? Why do companies choose some disclosures over others? In this course, we will survey the SASB disclosures and direct our focus toward the SASB Materiality Map. We will explore how to establish that which is material to a company or portfolio based on SASB guidance.